How to change subsite group access request?

Question

I am in a company where we are trying to organize our SharePoint documents sites by subsidiaries - services (There is one sub-site per service).

In my example the subsidiary is "France" (root) and the service "MA" is a sub-site. We don't want each service to access other service's documents so I disabled inherited permissions in each sub-sites and they have their own sub-site groups. "MA_LECTURE" is a sub-site group.

I'd like, and am struggling to allow, one sub-site group to manage access requests. Access request configuration says that only members of the root default's group are allowed to accept or refuse access requests.

But I don't want to add people to the root default group because I want to restrain root access and modifications.

Is there a way to change the sub-site group used to manage access request?

Thanks & Regards,

Answer 1

Follow below steps:

1. At sub-site level, while breaking the permissions from Site collection select the options to create a new group and create groups for your sub-site as given below:

   

2. Then go to the home page of your sub-site.

3. Select Site permissions from Settings(Gear) icon.
4. Click on Change sharing settings under Sharing Settings.
5. Toggle Allow access requests to show as ON.
6. Choose your sub-site owner group under Choose who will receive access requests for this site (Check below Image).

7. Click Save.

   

Note: Replace Site Name with your sub-site name.

Answer 2

In order to manage permissions of a site or sub-site you could consider using the Manage Hierarchy group. As you see the Manage Hierarchy group has the Manage Permissions permission. My answer is based on you using 'broken inheritance' so that each sub-site has unique permissions.

You could trying giving a user in the sub-site Manage Hierarchy permissions. This would allow the user to manage permissions in that sub-site. You'd then need to find a way to delegate to this group - this link here looks useful for doing this.